Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea Pallas 1811

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Lagomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 185-211 : 189

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scientific name	Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea Pallas 1811
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Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea Pallas 1811 , Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, Vol. 1: 152.

Type Locality: "... e terris Tschuktschicis," [Chukotsk peninsula ( Ognev, 1940:41), Chukotsk AO, Russia].

Vernacular Names: Northern Pika.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. hyperborea Pallas 1811

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. cinereoflava Schrenk 1858

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. coreana Allen and Andrews 1913

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. ferruginea Schrenk 1858

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. mantchurica Thomas 1909

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. normalis Schrenk 1858

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. uralensis Flerov 1927

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. yesoensis Kishida 1930

Subspecies Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea subsp. yoshikurai Kishida 1932

Distribution: Ural, Putorana, Sayan Mtns, east of Lena River to Chukotka, Koryatsk and Kamchatka; upper Yenesei, Transbaikalia, and Amur regions, Sakhalin Isl ( Russia); NC Mongolia; NE China; N Korea; Hokkaido ( Japan).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc); the subspecies yesoensis is considered to be rare on Hokkaido, Japan.

Discussion: Subgenus Pika . Formerly included in alpina ; see A. T. Smith et al. (1990), and references therein. Differences in morphology and vocalizations are noticeable where hyperborea and alpina are sympatric in the W Sayan Mtns, Khangai Mtns, and Transbaikalia, and character displacement in size is also evident in some populations ( Lissovsky and Lissovskaya, 2000; A. T. Smith et al., 1990). The original Pallas citation was printed and privately circulated in 1811, but not published for general distribution until 1826. Subspecies follow Lissovsky; formerly included O. turuchanensis Naumov 1934 , which is considered a separate species ( Lissovsky, 2002).